{"id":5136,"date":"2010-02-26T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=5136"},"modified":"2010-02-25T08:56:59","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T14:56:59","slug":"i-am-an-atheist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/i-am-an-atheist\/","title":{"rendered":"I am an atheist&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--YouTube Error: bad URL entered-->\n<p><em>I am an atheist when it comes to the god of violent jihad.<br \/>\nI am an atheist when it comes to the lord who converts by the sword.<br \/>\nI am an atheist when it comes to the mission of politicians using religion as ammunition.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em>but <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I believe in You &#8211; the Artist of trees and galaxies.<br \/>\nI believe in You &#8211; the Poet of oceans and rivers and streams.<br \/>\nI believe in You &#8211; the God of compassion who calls us to action<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t believe what they believe but I believe in You<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I believe in You &#8211; Majestic Designer of space and time<br \/>\nI believe in You &#8211; Composer of beauty and music of life<br \/>\nI believe in You &#8211; The Holy Forgiver and Wild Reconciler<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I am an atheist to the gods of the greedy ignoring the needy.<br \/>\nI am an atheist to the gods who make others torture and suffer<br \/>\nI am an atheist when it comes to view of the chosen few, who<br \/>\njudge and condemn all who differ them.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em>I believe in You &#8211; Mighty in meekness and gentle in power<br \/>\nI believe in You &#8211; The Word who has spoken good news to the broken<br \/>\nI believe in You &#8211; Transcending mystery, with us in history<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an atheist when it comes to the god of violent jihad. I am an atheist when it comes to the lord who converts by the sword. I am an atheist when it comes to the mission of politicians using religion as ammunition. but I believe in You &#8211; the Artist of trees and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/i-am-an-atheist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I am an atheist&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,13],"tags":[1549,580,1815,833,11],"class_list":["post-5136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-music","tag-atheist","tag-brian-mclaren","tag-lyrics","tag-song","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1kQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}